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Live Review, 2/22/12: Cursive Is Flawless But Not Thrilling at Great American Music Hall

CursiveUmeWednesday, Feb. 22, 2012Great American Music HallBetter than: Staying in with a record player and a glass of wine (but only just). Going to see Cursive at the Great American Music Hall tonight is a little bit like going to an amusement park and finding that only one rollercoaster is open. ... More >>

Scratch Acid: Show Preview

CursiveUmeWednesday, Feb. 22, 2012Great American Music HallBetter than: Staying in with a record player and a glass of wine (but only just). Going to see Cursive at the Great American Music Hall tonight is a little bit like going to an amusement park and finding that only one rollercoaster is open. ... More >>

The Strange Boys: Show Preview

CursiveUmeWednesday, Feb. 22, 2012Great American Music HallBetter than: Staying in with a record player and a glass of wine (but only just). Going to see Cursive at the Great American Music Hall tonight is a little bit like going to an amusement park and finding that only one rollercoaster is open. ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: The Best and Worst Shows from a Week at SXSW

CursiveUmeWednesday, Feb. 22, 2012Great American Music HallBetter than: Staying in with a record player and a glass of wine (but only just). Going to see Cursive at the Great American Music Hall tonight is a little bit like going to an amusement park and finding that only one rollercoaster is open. ... More >>

It's Freshman 10 Time Again -- Start Choosing Your Favorite Up-And-Coming Local Rapper

​Ah, March. Music fiends flock to Austin. Men become obsessed with watching other men (who are still in college) flail wildly while trying to stuff an orange ball into a tiny hoop. And Bay Area rappers turn into glad-handing politicians, littering their Facebook pages and Twitter feeds with pleas, ... More >>

Insane Clowns Break Down Magnetic Juggalo Appeal for LA Weekly

Didn't we meet at the tuxedo rental place?​ Meanwhile, in one of the six or seven other places in the world that is not Tokyo or Austin, Gustavo Turner of our sister rag LA Weekly went to the "vast wasteland of poverty" that is Detroit to kick it with the Insane Clown Posse, who've been wearing ma ... More >>

Asylum Street Spankers: Show Preview

Didn't we meet at the tuxedo rental place?​ Meanwhile, in one of the six or seven other places in the world that is not Tokyo or Austin, Gustavo Turner of our sister rag LA Weekly went to the "vast wasteland of poverty" that is Detroit to kick it with the Insane Clown Posse, who've been wearing ma ... More >>

Atelier Crenn and The Grove Open, Bar Tartine and the Globe Both Lose Chefs

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Just in case you haven't heard, Atelier Crenn (3127 Fillmore, at Pixley, 440-0460, ateliercrenn.com) opens on Friday. Tablehopper is first to report two chef changes. First, Bar Tartine is l ... More >>

Five Great Reissues from Last Year That You Haven't Heard Yet

2010 continued 2009's heavy schedule of reissues, with release of spruced-up editions of Exile on Main St. and the Apple Records catalog being flogged as mainstream news items. Geezer rockers of course take this as definitive proof that today's music sucks. Premature post-postmods like Patton Oswal ... More >>

Kauffman's Five: This Week in Blogging

Edible Office/Flickr​A few of my favorite blog posts from the week:​1. As anyone who's hit Portland or Austin's food-cart strips knows, the appeal of a street-food vendor's single-subject approach is amplified ― exponentially ― when a passel of carts come together. Matt Cohen, La Cocina, and ... More >>

The Ferocious Few Get Off the Streets

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Openers: Get There Early For The Myonics

​The Bay Area has the psychedelic side of rock well-covered. From the acid-soaked experiments of 1960s San Francisco ballrooms to the PBR-sloshing sweat happenings of today's garages, we have the druggy, disjointed sound down. Bands like The Myonics, a five-piece East Bay outfit that's opening Fri ... More >>

Conan O' Brien Doesn't Join Revision 3: Digg 2.0 Is Announced

We were about to head towards the Bigg Digg Shindigg at SXSWi last night when we saw the New York Times' Jenny 8 Lee report on Twitter that Conan O' Brien had joined the Revision 3  line-up, as well as the Live Diggnation telecast at the Austin event.​While it captured public (and our) imagin ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

Barry McGee, part of the PAPER! AWESOME! show Sat. at Baer Ridgway ​Whether you're craving ice cream and beats, grilled cheese and books, drone and dive bar basements, or poppy garage and Grace Cathedral, there's lots of cheap combo options for entertainment this weekend. And that's not evening me ... More >>

Zeitgeisty

Barry McGee, part of the PAPER! AWESOME! show Sat. at Baer Ridgway ​Whether you're craving ice cream and beats, grilled cheese and books, drone and dive bar basements, or poppy garage and Grace Cathedral, there's lots of cheap combo options for entertainment this weekend. And that's not evening me ... More >>

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick: White Denim

​White Denim @ the Independent The mish-mash of musical styles on White Denim's new album, Fits -- or on last year's debut, Explosion, and a handful of prior EPs and singles -- meshes surprisingly well. Perhaps the trio isn't actually from Austin, but another planet entirely, where alien technolo ... More >>

Ernest Gonzales' Electronic Experiment in Human Connection

​I'm not sure how Exponential Records owner Ernest Gonzales is planning to use all the secrets his fans are slowly pouring out to him. But the Austin producer (of cinematic post rock/electronic moodscapes) has announced his Been Meaning To Tell You project online. The main piece of the concept is ... More >>

Neon Indian’s warm, retro glow

​I'm not sure how Exponential Records owner Ernest Gonzales is planning to use all the secrets his fans are slowly pouring out to him. But the Austin producer (of cinematic post rock/electronic moodscapes) has announced his Been Meaning To Tell You project online. The main piece of the concept is ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Hex Dispensers

BaldoI've been really digging Austin garage punks Hex Dispensers for a while now. Their gothic Ramones sound comprises traces of the Wipers and a perverted fascination with criminal behavior. The group's debut, self-titled album was infested with lover -assassins, television-haunting ghosts, and ars ... More >>

Heartless Bastards

BaldoI've been really digging Austin garage punks Hex Dispensers for a while now. Their gothic Ramones sound comprises traces of the Wipers and a perverted fascination with criminal behavior. The group's debut, self-titled album was infested with lover -assassins, television-haunting ghosts, and ars ... More >>

Jackpine Social Club's Nick Tangborn Moving to Austin

Nick Tangborn, the lumberjack-tall, ever-friendly guy behind the Jackpine Social Club label, is moving on to Austin next month. Tangborn is a steadfast supporter of many a local songwriter, releasing early Kelley Stoltz music on Jackpine as well as albums by indie pop, folk, and rock acts ranging fr ... More >>

... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

The Century of Self (Richter Scale/Justice)

Yo! Majesty ... And Then There Was One

Two years ago at SXSW, dynamic lesbian hip-hop group Yo! Majesty blew away everyone crammed around them at the Beauty Bar. They were fierce on the mike, sharp with the insults, funny with the comebacks, and unafraid to slap a dude trying to cop a feel of their flesh. My gut was that these ladies wer ... More >>

The Trail of Dead Winds Thru S.F. in Mid-March (Be Afraid ... Be Very Afraid)

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

Butthole Surfers remain on the precipice

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

The Mother Truckers: Cowpunk Coitus

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

Heavenly States on the Record

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

Bay Area Picks for SXSW

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

Birdmonster sign to Fader mag's record label

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

We're Number Three! San Francisco Among Top Blogging Cities

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

Hammond B3 master Reuben Wilson Jams the Beastie Boys

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

Definition-Defying Display

North Beach Jazz Festival splits the genre wide open

Spoon

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)

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Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)

Letters to the Editor

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Hear This

The Meat Purveyors drag bluegrass through the gutter; the Owls one-up the Beatles

House of Tudor

The Meat Purveyors drag bluegrass through the gutter; the Owls one-up the Beatles

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Meat Purveyors drag bluegrass through the gutter; the Owls one-up the Beatles

Canoe

I Give You ... Canoe!

The King of Comedy

Local sightings of a no-budget comedy about cutthroat pet-supply salesmen

Various Artists; Dan Zanes and Friends; Tom Paxton

The Bottle Let Me Down (Bloodshot)

Family Dance (Festival Five)

Your Shoes, My Shoes (Red House)

Wide Awake in America

Richard Linklater seeks meaning in Waking Life

Good Fortune

Fortune Cookies II

Magic and Loss

From Texas to San Francisco and back again, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

Letters

From Texas to San Francisco and back again, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

Quiet, Please -- We're Rocking

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Recordings

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Hear This

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Redemption Song

The Fugees mark a return to righteousness in hip hop